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We hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday out there.
We got a lot of fun to get to.
We're going to talk about our open house parking lot party in a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Got that coming up for you.
We're also going to get into a fun one here I've got about canned foods that were popular
50 years ago.
Then many people are eating anymore.
Or are they?
Mmm.
We sure are.
We will discuss all that coming up for you.
And of course, we kick off the 10 o'clock hour away we like to with some entertainment news.
And Sharon Stone has no problem playing villains.
Which you would know if you've seen basic instinct, one of the better villain performances
of all time.
But Sharon has a quote moral code when it comes to playing villains.
They've got to be really, really, really, really bad.
I'm going to do it.
It's got to be bad.
She doesn't want to play quote the complicated bad guys who are also given some empathy.
She said quote if I play a villain, I want to go full villain.
I don't believe in playing a villain like she's bad, but they, but hey, because real
villains, you know, they, she had a bad child or whatever and all this stuff.
She doesn't want any of that.
She just wants to play somebody straight up evil.
Yep.
Sharon takes evil seriously.
She also shared this saying from her hometown quote when the devil walks in the room, it
might be fun, but don't give him a seat.
Don't invite them to sit down.
They might be a fun person at a cocktail party, but don't take them home.
It's a long phrase.
That's a long phrase.
I got to look up where she's from.
I got to look.
I appreciate actors like Sharon Stone, who won when they're working, when they're on set
or on stage or anything like that, when they're preparing for these roles, they are working
their tails off, but once the job is done, they're not going to take it too seriously.
They're not going to, they're not going to get bent out of shape about it.
It's the kind of person I want to be, where I would hope to go with the craft.
I think she does a really good job at this.
She has played some roles and done some things as an actor that other actors have not been
asked to do.
She has done this to not only have a career and keep working in the industry, but also
to be a good actor.
Hey, this is what they roll takes, I'm willing to do it.
That's definitely on my bucket list.
I really want to play an awful, mean, terrible character that everybody hates.
There's nothing like it.
There's nothing like it.
I'm not like that.
It's the polar opposite of me in real life.
That's one of the dreams for an actor is getting to do that, getting to play characters
and getting to be people that were nothing like.
One of the things that brings us to a role oftentimes is some parallels, something that
we can connect to with the character.
But I think that when we get to play villains, I think we often, we can find out as much
about ourselves as we do with the character.
The other thing I like too is fighting on stage, like having sparring verbally.
I find that so much fun.
I detest conflict in real life.
Okay.
I do not like to have arguments and in fact, if it's not scripted, I usually can't do
it.
Interesting.
Yeah.
For me, I don't like confrontation.
I don't like it, but I'm very good at it.
And whether it is with my fists or my mouth, I've had to learn to be good at it.
I'm not saying that in a cocky way.
I'm saying it out of reps.
I would not be able to guess how many fights I've been into my life.
I have no idea.
As far as with my fists, I've been fighting for a very long time.
Now, I haven't thrown a punch in a long time, either.
Now with that, when I was in California, we were filming our TV show.
There was a fight that breaks out in the courtroom, and I have to throw three punches.
And so as soon as we got done, I got to call my dad right away and be like, Dad, I got
to put use to it.
I got to use it for something.
It always felt great.
We actually saved money not bringing a fight coordinator on set.
I just did the fight coordinate.
Now there was like maybe a minute, two minutes worth of fighting going on in the courtroom,
but it was being able to take that knowledge and take that stuff and try to do something
positive with it.
I think that that's another part of being to get to play characters that you're nothing
like is being able to find something like that.
To me, what she's saying and what I enjoy so much about this is when it comes to having
empathy for the character, that's on the audience.
For the actor, I'm not, I don't play a care.
I've never played more villains than I've played good guys, and I've never played a villain
like, I'm playing a bad guy, but that's not how you do it.
You're playing a role like this is who I am.
I don't look at it as evil or bad.
I'm just trying to take over the world.
What's wrong with that?
Whatever the case might be with the villain.
I like her approach to it.
I like what she's saying there.
And then there's, now she talked about this and we got that from Seth Meyershow, a late
night talk show, of course.
We go from one late night host to another, Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel launched his playful fake feud with Matt Damon over 20 years ago, and they
been kind of going back and forth for years in this kind of fun way.
Matt Damon's been very cool about it, I think.
He handles it very well.
But all those jokes almost came back to bite them because he could have been arrested
for murdering Matt Damon.
Oh, yeah, in a very clue style way.
Jimmy recently told Variety about a time when Matt came over to his place, scarfed down
dinner and started choking.
He said, quote, he came late.
He was very hungry and just started eating really fast.
He started choking on a pork rib.
His brother was also there and he tried the Heimlich many times, but it was down too far.
Oh no.
The rib was stuck for about an hour and a half.
So clearly this wasn't a situation where the windpipe was blocked, but instead there
was food lodged in your food pipe.
Jimmy wanted to get Matt to the hospital because, quote, if he dies in my house, I'm going
to prison for the rest of my life.
I will never be able to explain this as anything other than murder.
It's unclear if Matt was hesitant or his brother, but they did not do that.
Instead they started YouTube being a fix.
What?
This is insane.
Go to the hospital.
No, no.
Jimmy said they watched a lot of videos and finally concluded that eating little bits
of bread was the way to get the rib back to work though it's way down his stomach and
it worked.
The bread saved him.
What?
Man.
Like this said, no, that's a tiny right story.
We almost lost Matt Damon.
Like that's not, and it's Matt Damon's fault.
It's his own fault.
I mean, he'd go to the hospital, man.
And another great PSA, I want to see Matt Damon doing PSAs about slowing down when
you're eating.
Like, I want to see him do that next with his career.
I think Matt Damon's a very good actor and I want to see him do this.
Take that actor and tell it of his to PSAs.
Hi, I'm Matt Damon.
I almost died choking on a poor, a poor grip.
I can't do a good Matt Damon impression.
Here's how you not do that.
Yeah.
I love when people share these stories though.
I think that's interesting.
Yeah, because they're just human too.
We have a tendency to put people like Matt Damon up on a pedestal, but no, they do dumb
things too.
Have you ever choked when you're alone?
Not to a point where I was like scared.
Oh, I got right there.
When I was living in the kelp, the girlfriend I had at the time, she was studying abroad,
so she was in France and it was just me and the dog in our apartment.
It's 10, 11 at night or something like that and I was eating too fast because I always
do.
I need to slow down and taste my food more because I just inhale it.
Which is weird that you're so picky, but okay.
Right.
I think it was a potato chip or something that got lodged and I started choking and I immediately
started the panic with it.
I don't normally panic in those situations, but this is still the only time I can think
of.
I've never really choked choked and I'm looking around and I see the dog in there and
Ghanzo is not looking at me like, what do you want me to do?
I got no thumbs and I started trying to, on the edge of a chair, started trying to do
the, like, the highlight of myself.
Yeah.
And I'm doing it and I'm doing it and I'm going and I don't feel like I'm doing it right.
But then I realized as I was bending over and trying to get it dislodged, it got dislodged
and I kept doing it for no reason really.
I was just, I was just panicked.
I was just kind of in a hurry trying to like make sure that I didn't, and I would love
to have, I would love to be able to tell everybody that I saw my life flash before my
eyes or I wanted to survive for the right reasons.
I refuse to die in a silly way.
I am not going out like that.
That's not, I have survived way too dang much.
I am not going out in a silly way.
I am not going to let my friends be at my funeral.
Did you hear how James, he sucked on that, he was a potato chip that took him out, man.
It was like, no, no.
That's all we're putting on your tombstone, James.
Yeah.
Don't care how you die.
It's going to be death by potato chip on your tombstone.
Don't.
Oh, that's it.
Last night, we are going into week two of our rehearsals for Angled and Pond, the new
fall of production for Wisconsin's Rapids Community Theatre.
Awesome.
How's it going?
Very exciting.
Last week, we got all of our blocking in week one and that is, I'm so excited about that.
It really gives our actors an opportunity to play and to kind of work the stage a little
bit more.
It can be difficult and I'm over explaining this because I want everybody to understand
people that haven't been in place before and hopefully encourage you to be a part of
place.
In this part of the process, you're really trying to figure out a lot while also doing
this without knowing where you're going to really stand because we don't have everything
on the stage yet and stuff.
So you're really able to not only kind of get your footing literally, but you're also
really able to build on your character.
What I'm enjoying is seeing the actors build their characters but build them together while
leaning into each other and building off of each other and what their character, the other
seeing other actors do.
The timing is already getting there, like especially with some of these bits, I imagine
most people, if you think of Angolan Pond, you think of a drama, you think of heartfelt
and it is all of those things, but it is also sneaky funny.
There's some great comedic parts.
If you are a fan of dry humor, if you were a fan of sarcasm or anything, this is your
play and I have got an amazing cast.
I got so dang lucky.
Every one of these actors and we've only got six roles but all of them are incredible
and just doing an amazing job already and we just got into week two.
I cannot imagine what this is going to look like at weeks from now and when you all get
to see it because I all expect you all there for as many nights as possible.
There are no reruns in theater.
Every night is going to be different.
Each one's unique.
Performance is our September 25th and sixth.
Those are opening nights.
Get your tickets and find out more at wrctheater.org, wrctheater.org and along with that I do want
to remind everybody that wrct has other events going on and one of the ones we are trying
to put together over there is our golden anniversary variety show.
We want you to be a part of the celebration.
Go to wrctheater.org and there's a little link right up in the right hand corner.
You click on that.
You can find out how you can help celebrate 50 years of wrct.
Now whether you want to perform, maybe you want to do a little one act play or perform
something or you want to help out with decorations or food preparation, ticket sales, bar
tending, any of these things we could use all people to be a part of this.
Awesome.
Head on over to wrctheater.org to get your tickets and of course sign up for the variety show.
And it is time everybody.
We are less than, well, a little bit over 24 hours away from our parking lot party.
It is our open house, WFHR, WRI are opening our doors and we're welcoming the whole community
and all of our celebrated following communities next to each other.
If you're on a state, you're in state, whoever you are, we want you to come on down.
We do.
We want to see you at our party.
It is going to be a blast, everybody.
We have got so many different things going on with this event.
So many.
So let's kind of take care of this in some order.
We will have live broadcasts.
We'll be broadcasting from noon to two right here from the WFHR studios.
I'm going to drag on as many people as I can with me.
And then we will have Katie Cruz broadcasting over on WRI doing her shift from our parking
lot, from our studios, how cool is that?
She's going to be there in person.
I can't wait to meet her.
After that, you're going to have a special episode of Red Folk and Blue Laura's new show.
You'll hear that.
And then from five to six, Seth is going to be broadcasting live from 1055WRI.
Yeah.
So we're going to be live on the radio.
We're going to be meeting you.
We're going to be talking with you.
Kids are going to be able to record their own audio, actually working on these scripts
this morning.
Warning show host, music DJ, sports broadcaster or news reporter, I just fill in some links.
Bring the kids on down and Melissa will teach them a little bit about the craft and about
what we do around here.
And certainly as you see our staff around, if you have questions, please ask us.
That's part of the point of all this is being able to kind of let you guys look behind
the curtain a little bit more and understand what we're doing.
We will have all that going on and we're going to feed you.
We've got food trucks down here, El Sembrador, food truck will be here for a little while
and then they leave.
We'll also have sweet treats, food truck down here as well.
That's where you'll find me.
And then radio grill will be picking up the taco slack once El Sembrador leaves.
And yeah, you're going to have food options available to purchase.
And then also our staff dessert cook off our sweet off, sweet off, we're sweet enough.
We have our staff all making sweets and you guys are going to be able to draw us, not
all of us.
But some of us.
Yeah, some of us.
James, we kicked you out.
I'm so sorry.
Well, more on that later.
But one of the things that I'm really excited about for our listeners is all of that.
And the opportunity to have milk here and judging it, a big shout out to milk.
And listeners get to cast their vote as well.
If you come right at the start from noon to one, listeners will be able to cast their
vote for a listener favorite and then Milton will do the official, his official judging.
So we're kind of going to have like two prizes here, which are just bragging rights.
And speaking of...
And speaking of...
And speaking of food and recipes, we want your recipes, everybody.
We are celebrating, we are going to be doing something really fun here and bringing back
our WFHR cookbook.
This time, the WFHRWRI cookbook, I just thought of, but listen, told me the idea for the
cover.
And you just remembered it?
Yeah, yeah.
It's such a great idea and we're going to have so much fun doing that cover.
It is an opportunity to take those wonderful family recipes or those favorite recipes
of yours and have them mortalized in our cookbook.
When's the last time you had a new cookbook, everybody?
This is going to be fun.
Yeah.
And it's going to be, you know, so many regional recipes from all of the areas around here
where, you know, we...
Great point.
Yeah.
Great point.
I'm excited about that.
I'm working on...
I've got the form built.
I know Chuck is in contact with Sage and John, I believe, about getting that link on our
websites so you can just submit your recipe digitally.
It's super easy.
Yeah.
We're looking forward to having that link go to our web pages, our Facebook pages and
all that and we'll...
Eventually.
You can get that on there.
You can also email us maybe and get it there.
You can email us.
You can bring them by and just make a photocopy.
Pam will just make a copy of your recipe card for you or for us.
We will have...
Anyway, you can get them to us.
We will have Edge VR down here.
Yeah.
They're going to be setting up shop and you can find out more about them and check out some
of the cool stuff that they are doing.
We're going to have our throwers here.
Yep.
Revolution throwers.
Yeah.
Revolution.
Evolution throwers.
Evolution throwers.
We're going to have them and hang out with them a little bit and of course some of our
non-profits are going to be down here.
Yeah.
So many non-profits.
I think I counted like nine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If everybody shows up, which it sounds like they are, it's just going to be such a fun day.
We're also going to have some civic media celebrities there here at the studio.
Pat Cratello is going to be doing his show from there in the morning.
I believe Todd Albus coming.
You might even catch glimpses of some of our wasa folk.
I think Chad Holmes is going to stop by me, Brittany Merlot.
I'm not going to say that one for sure.
And of course Katie Cruz that we already mentioned.
Everybody wants in on this.
Everybody wants in on this.
Jenny Brands coming too.
Yeah.
Did you know that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's so cool.
It's so awesome.
We appreciate civic supporting what we're doing here and everybody coming on down and hanging
out with us and getting to see our studios a little bit.
I also think that it's very important in this day and age and with what we try to do here
at civic and promoting democracy and facts and reality and all those things, you get to
know us a little bit more.
You get you can see that we're not just voices.
We are not just.
Come and talk to us.
We're human.
We're citizens.
We're fellow citizens.
We're your neighbors.
And we are just doing our job and our job is you.
Our job is getting facts out to your democracy.
You're supporting that and promoting that and building on our community and our local
events and what's happening here in our community because that's important and building
on what WFHR has done for 85 years strong being a we are in anybody's pocket.
We are we are a democracy station.
We are a factual station and we are just out there to take care of you and be a source
that you can count on all those things and have some fun as well.
Oh yeah.
We're going to blast.
Oh, I do have an update James because we're closing our parking lot.
People won't be able to park in the parking lot because obviously that's where our party
is happening.
But we did get in connection with the bread and butter shop that's right across the street
from our parking lot and the parking spaces beside the laundromat side of the lot they
are facing our business.
We can park people coming can park there and then also park up the street on 17th because
our staff members are going to park way far away and walk right James.
Yep.
Yep.
I already I think I'm going to park over at the zoo to be honest with you.
I don't know where else to go.
I think I'm going to get that out of the fire but it's more real about park and it's
not because I just love those places and want any excuse to be over there.
Sure.
But yes, we can park far away.
So you guys can park.
Yeah, so that you guys have close parking and you can come in and party with us.
A gigantic shout out to the bread and butter shop and they wonder the great people that
they have over there.
They got great people.
And Tanya.
Yeah.
Good people.
Join us tomorrow everybody whether it's from 12 to 6 or just for an hour on your lunch
break whenever it is we appreciate your time.
We want to see you.
We're looking forward to it.
Make plans for that tomorrow.
Our parking lot party.
We'll come back and get you ready for our news break coming up on the morning show at
WF HR.
Welcome back everyone.
Morning show here at WF HR locally grown radio.
We hope you're having a great Tuesday out there.
Thanks so much for joining us over here.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
We're talking about our parking lot party and along with that I did want to mention one
of our good stories and one of our good things going on in our area is of course our Wisconsin
Rapids municipal zoo.
Our zoo is open Tuesday through Sunday 10 to 7 and it will be open through Labor Day.
I keep that in mind everybody.
Our days are numbered with our zoo.
We only get we got to get over there soon.
If you haven't been over there and you definitely want to get over there tomorrow tomorrow.
David Stokes is going to be there.
David is not only joined us here in these airwaves many times but certainly his had fun
and celebrated the animals over at Helen Zoo House in 1911 Gainer Avenue.
He'll be there tomorrow at 11 a.m. and at three.
Through songs, stories, movements and riddles, live animals and artifacts you just don't
know.
Even David doesn't know what animals he's going to bring down.
He's got to see how the animals are doing that morning.
Yes.
He was available.
Willing to travel.
Seth hit on this yesterday.
I thought it was a perfect idea.
The kids had on over there at 11.
Check this out and then moves your way on over here at noon and check out the parking lot
party.
Right.
Come and get some lunch.
Do a taste testing because and vote for your favorite staff dessert.
Vote for mine because you know mine's the best.
And yeah, see it comes to our studios.
Get some swag.
I think that's a great idea.
God, I don't want to, I don't want to, I'm glad I don't have to vote on these suites.
I just want to eat them.
I could never choose between any of you guys.
I don't know.
We'll see if there's some left for you.
Yeah, we'll see.
We'll see.
We, you know, we, we cover a lot of good stories around here.
But every once in a while, we got to then a right story.
And sometimes though, there are no good guys.
There are no bad guys.
There are just people and slides, slides, emergency responders and Connecticut were called
to a playground for an unusual rescue when a 40 year old man became wedged inside the
middle portion of a tube slide.
The town of Vernon Fire Department said on social media that crews are spotted alongside
Vernon EMS and Vernon Police Department just after 4.30 p.m. Saturday for a confined space
rescue of a 40 year old adult male stuck in a tube slide outside a playground.
The man was said to be wedged a feet and head first in the middle portion of the slide.
Rescuers set up a very ventilation equipment to keep the man cool amid the high temperatures
inside the slide.
Fire fires removed a section of the slide to get him out.
Quote.
The patient was freed within 30 minutes and was evaluated unseen by EMS patients.
So he was okay and everything.
Physically.
He's okay.
Emotionally.
I do.
I don't know.
It might be a little wrecked.
I may move.
I just might be.
I might go to my family but like we're moving.
We're moving everybody.
There's so many questions though.
Yeah.
How you're going to look here.
I've done this.
I've been I've been playing with my kids at the playground and you see on them do stuff
and whether they egg you on or you just want to go down to slide yourself.
But I'll tell you some every time I've done it, one of those open slides, one of the old
school ones to kill your tailbone, like those, like I go into it, like I am as skinny
as a rail.
I'm built for those kind of slides and I still won't go in one.
I see what I was saying earlier about dying in a silly way.
I'm doing it.
Can you imagine being stuck inside of one of those and it would have to have been more
than 30 minutes because it took them 30 minutes to get him out.
Right.
How long was he stuck in there before somebody showed up?
And you have time to just sit in there and think about what your significant other is
going to say, what your buddies at work are going to say, what your kids are going to
say.
How you're going to explain the weird bruises that you have because you're trying to
get out yourself.
That ain't right part of this story is just the story.
There is nobody to blame necessarily for this one because I don't know the situation
of what led him to do this.
Nobody have done it.
No.
But at the same time, as I said before, I've been there where you're around kids.
You want to have fun and play and it's going to hang out with your other 40-year-old buddies
and they're all egg and yarn.
Now that.
Now, if that's what this went down, yeah, I got probably I got them and then they all ran
away.
Absolutely.
100%.
Guys, they called 911 for him.
It doesn't matter if you're if you're 10 or 40.
That's how a lot of guys reacted to those situations.
Oh, God, run.
Everybody, everybody books.
I'm glad he's okay.
Stay out of slides, adults.
Yes.
Also glad he's okay.
We've got actual news, important news that Melissa has here for you.
We'll also have Mike Clem in sports, some entertainment news from Pete and of course
our wonderful partners all coming up for you.
And then when we get back, we're going to talk about those canned foods that were popular
for the years ago.
Oh, yeah.
Got that coming up on The Morning Show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show at WFHR.
Melissa and James hanging out with you.
Hope you all are having a great Tuesday out there.
Thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Got some fun stuff on the way.
We'll get into our schedule.
Talk about some good stories of the day and what you'll be doing with your day tomorrow.
We'll get all that coming up.
But right now, I know that I have experienced this when helping friends.
Like, cleaning out a house.
I helped my buddy Travis, a good morning to him and all of our friends over there, big
cheese and stuff, with cleaning out their house and getting rid of a lot of stuff that
was in there.
And I saw a lot of old canned foods.
And there was a SpaghettiOs brand or a flavor that I'd never heard of.
And I can't remember it, but it was some crazy combination that I'd never seen before.
Now, I will say, my house sold that I grew up in, with my non-empoppa and certainly
with my mom and dad, we never ate SpaghettiOs.
Just never had them.
That would be just an affront to your Italian cracker.
Yeah, I wish we weren't like that, but yes, yes, 100%.
This is the one category that the mail-offs had to be a little bit with their nose in
the air about them.
But I do know plenty of friends and family that loved them.
I just never seen this brand.
Well, chowhound.com has a new list for just that, those types of things.
They have a new list and you can find the complete article at chowhound.com, great name,
by the way.
A new list of canned foods that were popular 50 years ago, but are not eaten much anymore.
It's a trip down memory lane, also it can be a little bit maybe triggering.
These are in no particular order, so we're just going to kind of go through them here.
Like Betty Crocker, Spoon, and Bake Cookie Doe.
Each little can had enough dough to make three dozen cookies, and the varieties were
chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal, raisin, and sugar cookie.
I have never heard of cookie dough in a can.
Yeah, yeah.
Was it refrigerated though?
I would hope so.
Yeah, I do know.
Because when I think of canned food, I think of pantry stable cans of vegetables or fruit
or whatever on the pantry shelf.
The labeling and everything, it looks like a can of beans, but it's cookie dough, and
it's just in there, Melissa.
It's just like all crammed in there.
It does not look like it was refrigerated.
Well, I mean, if you do the, like you can put canned meat on the shelf, you know, like
I mean, think of all the canned things that we have that are on the shelf, that's fine.
It's fine, but I've only ever seen cookie dough like, you know, Pillsbury cookie dough
and refrigerated section in a tube, not a can.
How about it?
Continue, sorry.
More dessert.
Libby's fruit float.
Just add milk and stir.
The result was a frothy milkshake-like dessert that was reminiscent of pudding.
Okay.
Interesting.
Ah.
I'm not, I'm not weirded out by that.
No, no, no, you get all of them.
How about canned ribs, canned ribs, the brand Amaroar had one, and they were especially,
they were specially cut to work with the can, then smoked with hickory chips for, quote,
great flavor.
Oh my goodness.
Wraps in a can.
Why?
You just open a crack open that can, pull out the ribs.
Yep, pull out the ribs.
Old Paso can tortillas.
They were made with just corn, water, and salt, but let you store tortillas on the shelf.
Weird.
Huh, huh.
How about some spam spread?
It is no longer available.
I'll tell you that right now.
All you spam lovers out there, but it is, it was just, what it sounds like, spam spread.
It was just a, like, you could, like, a topping or more, like butter or almost or whatever,
you would just, but it was spam.
Huh.
Huh.
Okay.
Getting the number 10 here, and I have not heard of any of these.
I don't know, I don't know anything.
I had to look up the tortillas.
It looks like a, just like a, the size of a tuna fish can.
Hmm.
Deviled ham, which was ground up ham.
Uh, so-
That I have heard of.
It was spiced, impact into a can, and used primarily as a spread on sandwiches.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've heard of that one, and you can still get, like, a ham spread at delis.
Hmm.
Cand pork brains with milk gravy.
Ooh.
And-
Okay.
I'm out.
Yep.
Yep.
I knew it was going to happen eventually.
I didn't know where to.
I didn't know.
And- and for those of you that are still looking for this, maybe as a gag gift of-
Ooh.
They still sell it on Amazon.
Why?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Of all these things, that one surprises me, maybe the most.
Uh, yeah.
I don't know.
Okay.
Move on.
Campbell's pepper pot soap soup.
Pepper pot soup.
It's primarily a filly thing.
This is really big in Philadelphia, apparently.
Okay.
Hmm.
Uh, how about canned brown bread?
That I've seen.
Oh, and that is big.
Not like in- not in real life, but I've seen videos of it when they're like doing
MRIs and things like that.
It is a-
It is apparently really big in the northeast.
Hmm.
Uh, boiled peanuts, anybody.
That's a big thing in the South.
I got those in a can.
That's the one I've seen.
I haven't tried them, but I have seen them on-
in a grocery store.
I did see them.
Oh, Lauren, I got a couple cans of that one time.
I think we found it at Aldi.
I'd love to try that.
I really, really want to try that.
I was surprised.
I was surprised.
They were good.
That one sounded good.
And that's the only one so far on the list that I actually have seen in person.
Uh, canned tamales.
I remember those.
I think I've seen those.
Yeah, I do remember those.
I've never eaten them.
No, me neither, no.
But, uh, but, uh, I do remember- I- I want to say my dad or my brother got them.
Uh, it had to be my dad, because my brother by the time my brother was-
Oh, yeah.
Cornel.
Cornel tamales, they sell them at-
Yeah, you can get them at Walmart.
I can picture the label, yeah.
Yep.
Yeah.
Beef and chili sauce.
How about-
How about a canned whole chicken?
The-
What?
Yeah.
The whole thing?
I don't know.
The small chickener, it's a big can.
What they do is they get a big can and they lure the chicken in.
No, I don't know.
They don't know what they did.
No.
The brand Sweet Sue had this.
Uh, first off, I'm just learning there's a brand called Sweet Sue.
And they toward them, no.
I don't know how they did this.
I don't want to know.
I don't want to know how they-
Oh, no, you don't.
And don't look at the pictures.
Oh, my God.
Sometimes I'm interested in how the sausage is made, not now.
Not in this one.
Mm-hmm.
Three left.
We go to hunts putting snack packs.
Okay, yeah.
I remember snack packs, yeah.
Yeah, I don't want to-
I mean, they-
I didn't-
I don't remember them in the can, but I mean-
No, no.
They're in the plastic-
No, the plastic guys, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I do-
I remember big giant cans of pudding.
Like, um, cafeteria-sized cans.
If you're in the mood, pudding's amazing.
Yes.
Like, uh, pudding's awesome if you're in the mood for it.
Like, like, you just had teeth work done.
Right.
Yeah.
At number two, Spaghetti O's.
Yeah.
The original brand was Franco-American.
That's what the original brand was called.
Um, now, uh, Spaghetti O's.
But this is like the things that were 50 years ago
that we're not doing anymore.
People are still eating Spaghetti O's, aren't they?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
They're still selling.
They're still selling well, actually.
Spaghetti O's.
Yeah, but the Franco-American, if you look up that actual brand name,
like that's-
Sure.
Okay.
I get it.
It's a brand name of the Campbell Soup Company.
Uh, my-
And yeah, that-
I do remember those cans, though,
because the little eyes in the mouth.
My-
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Great logo.
Great logo.
And, uh, I mean, uh, something that many, many, many kids out there ate.
Uh, from-
Oh, yeah.
And on a big issue with this chef with Mr. Boyer D, um,
was the sugar content in the marinara.
Yeah.
She hated that.
She did not-
It's really sweet.
She felt like, um, it's kind of like if you're putting sweetener in your coffee
and then you add a ton of sugar.
Like, that's the way she kind of looked.
She felt like the marinara was already good on its own, adding sugar
to it really did-
It took away from the actual flavor of the sauce and everything.
Yeah, it just-
It's almost like ketchup.
Yeah, yeah.
I can't do it.
I can't, I can't-
There are a couple of, uh, pizza joints that do this, where they put-
You can tell they put a lot of sugar in their marinara and I-
I can't eat there.
I can't do it.
Hmm.
It was a special treat to get a can of chef Boyer D when we were kids, um,
Spaghetti O's.
My favorite was the ravioli and I would eat it cold out of the can.
Wow.
Because it was just-
It was good.
Man, nice.
I mean, that was-
There was not something we got very often.
And at number one on the list, and again, not necessarily an order just at the top of the list,
canned mac and cheese.
And, uh, Mr. Boyer D is guilty of this one, too.
That's a chef Boyer D product.
I'm looking at it here and it's just like your typical chef Boyer D cans,
just with mac and cheese in there.
Weird.
Yeah.
Yeah, nah, nah.
No, thank you.
No.
And I love mac and cheese.
I love mac and cheese.
But not-
Not like that.
That-
That ate the mac and cheese.
I know and love.
Yeah.
I mean, if you were-
Any of these things, if we were hungry enough, we'd probably eat-
I'm devouring it.
I'm devouring it.
I'm devouring it.
The minus two of those things I can think of, because I saw what the chicken looks like
when it comes out of the can, and I can't do brains and milk.
No.
No, no, no.
No.
I'm with you on that.
But it's picky as I come across in all those things.
If it's, you know, matter of this or nothing, you know what I-
For death, I'll eat it.
You know what I'm really picky about living.
A lot more picky about that.
We will take a quick time out.
We'll come back and wrap up the show, the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everyone.
Morning show here at WFHR.
Locally grown radio.
Melissa and James here to wrap up the show.
Thank you so much for joining us, everybody.
Been a fun show.
Oh, yeah.
Appreciate you guys hanging out with us.
We got some great stuff lined up for you throughout the day today.
Some great programming.
Be sure to join us for the Rapid Support.
We're going to get to meet you in United Way's Daniel Schlock.
She is going to be with us from, she's new two and one director over there
and looking forward to getting to know her, talking a little United Way.
More on them in a moment in our good stories, by the way.
Be sure to check out the Rapid Support in all of our great shows
at WFHR.com, gone over there, right to the side to the right.
You're going to find a little area where you can find all of our podcasts.
And we got Badger Football back talking about, to talk about.
Today at 7-0-5 right here at WFHR,
the premiere of the Luke Fickle show.
Oh, great.
Wisconsin Badgers head football coach,
going to be talking with us throughout the year about the season,
what's going on, and certainly the build up to another great season
of Wisconsin Badger Football.
Keep in mind, all Badger Sports right here.
Are we covering football, covering basketball, hockey?
We got it all for you right here at WFHR.
You're home for Badger Sports.
Do you want to send a special shout out to Learfield,
and of course to Mr. Matt LaPay, the legend himself.
You'll be hearing Mr. LaPay doing a bunch of our promos
and a bunch of our liners this year, once again,
as he's done for decades over here.
Oh, that's awesome.
Appreciate Matt.
I've got an interview Matt before it.
What an amazing human being.
He's so much fun.
He is such a fun guy.
I can talk to him every day.
Quick reminder, again, that you got plans tomorrow, everybody.
Yes, you do.
So we want you to head over to our Wisconsin Rapid Municipal Zoo tomorrow.
Head on over there around 11, if you'd like,
and check out the zoo'sort with David Stokes.
That's going to be going on.
David Stokes is going to be over there, so it's not zoo'sort,
but David Stokes is going to be over there performing at 11 and 3.
And while you're done with that, come on over to our parking lot party.
Yeah, come party with us.
We'll be doing that from noon to 6 right here at the studios.
We'll talk more about it tomorrow, of course,
but get on down here, everybody.
There's some for everybody.
Stop in it any time, but if you come from noon to 1,
you get to partake of the staff,
a dessert cookoff competition, and vote.
Yeah, we want you to be a part of this.
Everyone, come on down for our parking lot party.
It's going to be a blast.
Mm-hmm.
Got a couple of blood donation opportunities for everybody out there coming up this Friday,
the 22nd from 9 to 2, Lincoln High School at 1801 16th Street South.
We'll have a blood drive opportunity.
Head on over there for that.
Yeah, that's great.
Then on Monday, August 25th from 2 to 7,
we'll have a blood drive over at the former Eastern High School Music Room.
Mm-hmm.
So if you can't make the first one, try to make that one.
And then on the 29th from 10 to 3,
McMillan Library will be hosting another blood drive,
and our YMCA will be hosting one next month.
We'll be telling you about these as we get closer to them.
That's awesome.
And a quick reminder, on Thursday,
we encourage you to head on over to the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center
and check out one of our favorite people,
Pete Ravel and Four on the floor.
Oh, great.
Every first and third Thursday of the month over at the Cultural Center,
Pete Ravel and Four on the floor perform,
and you have never seen A by Like Pete.
He's a great guy.
Incredible human being, wonderful stories, amazing MC,
and of course incredible.
A excellent performer.
Yes, such a good performer.
As a lover of jazz, I love these guys,
and I love the work that they do.
Support our Cultural Center,
support our artists in this area.
Artists supporting artists is one of the more powerful things we could do as locals.
Support them.
And enjoy the show, everybody.
Yeah, it's a great time.
Live music at the Central Wisconsin Cultural Center
from 2 to 4, 26, 51 A Street South,
Pete Ravel and Four on the floor every first and third Thursday of the month.
And I know over there for that, it's gonna be fun.
Also, one of the touch on the United Way.
Our United Way of Southwood and Ends counties.
Just wrapped up their Stuffed the Bus event and everything.
And as somebody who signed up for their newsletter a long time ago,
I can tell you, reading from their newsletter,
Stuffed the Desk served 750 students in 2025.
Reading right from this,
thanks to hundreds of donors and volunteers,
750 local students began their academic year
with the essential school supplies provided through Stuffed the Bus and Stuffed the Desk events.
Members donated over 10,000 school supplies at Stuffed the Bus event during lunch by the river.
And on Friday, August 15th and Saturday the 16th, the items were distributed.
I actually happened upon it kind of by accident.
And God, an interview with Terry and the day went great.
It really did.
Yeah, a big shout out to all the volunteers and everybody that helps out with this whole process.
And certainly this community that steps up like no other.
We appreciate you.
Absolutely.
Nice work, everybody.
Everybody can take a little victory lap on this one.
And especially our United Way that does such amazing work.
They work so hard and you know that Terry joins us on these airwaves so much and everything.
That's why we're giving Terry a bit of a break.
You know, she's not going to join us that much this month.
She needs a break.
You can only handle so much of it.
She's been doing this for a long time, putting up with me.
It's not, it's a lot.
It's a lot to ask.
A lot to ask.
Sometimes we just need a break, James.
It's understandable.
Could you just go on holiday already?
You and my parents say the same thing.
Literally last night that's when I was here.
I was actually being yelled at about it.
Find out more about our United Way at uwac.org.
Be sure to follow them on social media as well and share their posts on your page.
You just never know who might see them otherwise.
And a nice work again, everybody.
Great work.
Some good stories of the day from around the world.
An 82 year old guy in Australia is going viral after he stopped to save a koala on the road
and then gave it to a talking to after it scratched at him.
It's just a wonderful video.
A 30 year old indigenous woman in Mexico recently entered a 39 mile ultra marathon and won it.
She had no equipment.
She ran the whole thing in sandals and the traditional clothing her tribe wears.
She reportedly walked for 14 hours just to get in the starting lineup.
So she walked 14 hours before even doing this.
Just to get there.
Dang.
Whoa.
Man, that is impressive.
That is very impressive.
Nike co-founder Phil Knight just donated two billion to the Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.
That is billion.
It could be.
Yeah.
His foundation says it's the largest single donation ever made to a college university or health group in the U.S.
You can tear this apart.
Phil Knight, very famously an Oregon alum and doesn't a lot for that and all those things.
Just I'm just looking at the good money going to cancer research.
Because we need it.
Yeah.
We need that.
Good news right there.
I don't care who donated it.
That's just good news.
A police officer in Ohio had to catch an escape peacock named Kevin and the chess cam footage is pretty dark funny.
The owner told him it might respond to its name.
So he used it quite a bit and a big, big time credit to the officer who was having fun with this.
But also you could tell he's like this is going to go viral.
They're going to put this out there.
This is not in my job description.
I like that.
I'm just going to do the best I can and he did a great work by him.
Great work.
That's awesome.
Staying in Ohio, a woman in Ohio started this last month and it's already blowing up a 30 year old Rosie Pollock noticed her dad needed a hobby.
And he always loved ascending her handwritten letters.
So in July, she launched something called the dad letter project where anyone can request an encouraged encouraging letter from him.
Just fill out a form on the website and let him know what's going on in your life.
And he will send you an encouraging letter.
That just about it.
You can go to dadletterproject.com.
If you would like the website lists four of them for now.
As far as like just examples if you're looking for examples or anything like that.
What a fun idea.
That is fun.
And firefighters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida saved a German shepherd that got stuck in a canal on August 5th and it turned out she belonged to someone.
And we're going to talk about it with our pet of the week from Denise on Thursday.
More on that story later.
Great show Melissa.
You too, Dan.
Be good to each other out there.
